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RISC OS Developments London Show news – including a public Iris release

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 VinceH

With this year’s London Show drawing ever nearer – the doors will be open to the public in just two days on 25th October, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre – another announcement has landed in the RISCOSitory bunker, and, amongst other interesting news, this one includes something we’ve all been eagerly awaiting for a very long time: a public release of web browser Iris from RISC OS Developments. Over to Andrew Rawnsley for all the gory details:

RISC OS Direct 5.31 now available

October 24, 2024October 24, 2024 VinceH

With Wi-Fi and web browser! Some very welcome news from RISC OS Developments, just a couple of days before London 2024 is the release of RISC OS Direct 5.31 – which includes a new internet stack and Wi-Fi facilities, as well as Iris, the web browser the company has been developing for quite some time.

RISCOSbits at the London Show

October 24, 2024October 21, 2024 VinceH

It’s just two days until London 2024, which takes place on Saturday, 26th October, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre. A long and detailed announcement has arrived at the bunker from Andy Marks of RISCOSbits, so to save me time (I have to get ready for the show as well, you know!), here it is in full:

Updated SDIO drivers released, de-cloaking Wi-Fi chips

February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 VinceH

New SDIO driver code has been submitted to the Gitlab repository hosted by RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) – i.e. for inclusion in the main source tree for RISC OS 5 – by RISC OS Developments Ltd (ROD).

Alan Adams makes a splash at Wakefield

August 29, 2021 VinceH

And the date for the 2022 show published. The guest speaker at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will be Alan Adams, with a project that has weaved its way through the years from its starting point on a BBC Micro to its current platform, a Raspberry Pi.

QrCode rewritten, becomes version 2.00

May 28, 2021 VinceH

Kevin Wells has released a new version of his application for turning small amounts of textual information into two dimensional bar codes, aka ‘Quick Response’ codes. These can provide a quick way for people to transfer information into devices that can read them – for example smart phones using a bar code scanner application – such as URLs, contact details, WiFi keys, and so on.

Cloverleaf Kickstarter campaign version 2.0 succeeds

May 14, 2021May 15, 2021 VinceH

Having tried to raise funds through a Kickstarter campaign around the start of the year, which fell short of their quite ambitious goal, RISC OS Cloverleaf have had a second try. And this time they seem to have reached their target – which was set much lower than before.

Not a show report (honestly): London 2020

November 2, 2020 VinceH

New hardware from R-Comp, and RISC OS 5.28 released! With the recent RISC OS London Show being a virtual one, taking place online via Zoom and streamed to YouTube, I decided in advance not to write a show report. Even now the event is over, it’s still possible for people to go back and watch those streams. However, there was some news that became evident as the day progressed, both within the various talks and in announcements put out to coincide with it, so it’s worth a brief look at…

Tom Williamson talks Direct to ROUGOL – 20th July

July 15, 2020 VinceH

Tom Williamson of Wi-Fi Sheep will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London – which will once again be taking place online, via Zoom. The subject of Tom’s presentation will be RISC OS Direct, the distribution (or distro) of the OS for the Raspberry Pi (and a version available for use on Windows, MacOS, and Linux via RPCEmu) put together in conjunction with RISC OS Developments Ltd.

A brief look at RISC OS Direct

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 VinceH

At the 2019 London Show, news broke of something to be called RISC OS Direct – a new distribution (distro) of the operating system, and an accompanying video series. The actual launch of RISC OS Direct happened in February, at the Southwest Show, so should be covered in the show report – but that report is currently still a work-in-progress, and is very late, so it seems eminently sensible to write a little something about RISC OS Direct separately.